US892350A - Hat-fastener. - Google Patents

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PATENTED JUNE '30, 1908. S. W. BATES.

HAT FASTENER.

APPLICATION TILED MAR. 16, 1906. RENEWED FOVJE, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON W. BATES, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

HAT-FASTENER.

Application filed March 15, 1905, Serial No. 250,133.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON WV. BATES, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Portland, Cumberland county, State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hat fastening device of that class wherein a double pointed pin with enlarged or flattened points is held in a guide-or holder secured generally to the lower edge of the sweat band in such a way that the pin may slide longitudinally through said guide to be inserted into the hair to hold the hat in place and may be withdrawn when the hat is to be removed. These pins are usually made so that they cannot be re moved from the guide or holder but it is often desirable to remove them as in this manner one set of pins will serve for several hats if each hat is provided with a set of sockets.

The object of my invention is to construct a hat fastening device of this class so that the pins may be readily taken out and put in and accomplish this object by the hereinafter described device, in which the pin passes through a horizontally elongated slot cut away in the center so that by pinching the points together the pin may be withdrawn although it will not pull out when a straight pull is exerted on it.

I illustrate my invention by means of the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective of my device with the pin in position, Fig. 2 is a central vertical section through the socket, showing the end of the pin in elevation, Fig. 3 is a rear view of the holder, Fig. 4 is a rear view of a modified form and Fig. 5 is a perspective of another modification.

Considering the form shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 A represents the double pointed pin flattened vertically at its point a. B is a guide or plate having perforated ears 6 by which it may be sewed to the edge of the sweat band or at the intersection of the crown and the brim. The pin is held in a horizontally elongated opening, narrow enough at the ends so that the flattened ends cannot be pulled out when the pin is in its normal position but cut away at some point between the ends so that the ends may be withdrawn by being pinched together. I prefer to form the holder with a vertically elongated socket b which tapers from the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 30, 1908.

Renewed November 25, 1907. Serial No. 403,771.

protected but cannot be withdrawn without pinching them together and pulling them out tl'irough the central opening.

In Fig. 4 I show a modification in which the socket b is cut away in the center forming a space 1) instead of having a recess struck out as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 5 I show a form in which the plate C is not provided with a recessed socket but contains a simple elongated slot 0 cut away at c and does not provide for protecting the point.

It is obvious that the points of the pins may be enlarged otherwise than by being flattened as for instance, by being upset to form a thickened point or knob, the essential point being to form the ends of the pin sufficiently large so that they will not pass through the slot when the pin is in its outer or normal position but will pass through when the points are brought together to the wide portion of the slot.

I claim 1. The herein described hat fastening device consisting of a plate adapted to be secured to the lower edge of the sweat band and having a horizontally oblong opening therein, a double pointed pin with enlarged points passing through said opening and held by the spring of the pin normally against the ends of said opening, said opening being narrower than the pin points at its end but wide enough to allow of the withdrawal of said points between the ends.

2. The herein described hat fastening device consisting of a plate adapted to be secured to the lower edge of the sweat band and having a horizontally elongated socket therein tapering from the face of the plate backward, the rear end of said socket having a horizontally elongated opening with its central portion wider than the ends and a double pointed pin with enlarged points adapted to pass through said opening and to be held normally in the ends of said opening by the spring of the pin, the central portion of said opening being of suflicient size to per mit the withdrawal of said points when they are pressed together.

3. The herein described fastening device I opening and to be held normally in the end 10 for hats consisting of a plate adapted to be of said opening by the spring of the pin. secured to the lower edge of the sweat band Signed at Portland, Me this 13th day of and having a horizontally elongated socket March 1905,

therein taperin from the plate backward and having a portid n cut away in the center, the SOLOMON BATES rear end of said socket having a horizontally Witnesses: elongated opening, a double pointed pin with F. W. HINOKLEY, enlarged points adapted to pass through said O, C. ABBOTT.

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